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salt junk
noun
, Nautical Slang.
- salted beef or pork.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of salt junk1
First recorded in 1785–95
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Example Sentences
There was the breakfast—salt junk and hard tack—regular sailor's fare.
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Withal, sailors who have been for months on a diet of “salt junk,” not only eat, but pronounce it highly palatable.
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The salt junk was either scarcely warm through, or was boiled into a soup.
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The boys said the officers were sick of salt-junk, and meant to have turtle-soup before they came home.
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We can't live on salt junk and hard bread without any water, sir.
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